Quotes with earth-cult

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  • Bruce Sterling People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Hicks People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
    Source: Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Erica Jong Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ban Kimoon Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Sri Anandamayi Ma Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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  • Martin Luther King Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • A. D. Hope Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
    Source: Imperial Adam (l. 42-44)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • John Updike Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Arnold Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Oscar Wilde Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Ayn Rand Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
    Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bhagat Singh Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lord George Byron Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Shirley Chisholm Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Muhammad Ali Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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